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LATEST BOOKS AT LOWEST PRICES
PARTISAN REVIEW has arranged with several publishers to make
available at a discount as high as 25% those books which we think
might be of particular interest to PR readers. The selection, along
with new titles, will include books from the publishers' active back
lists which have enduring interest.
Any of the books offered in this new section of PR may be
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their initial listing. Brief descriptions of titles available through
February 1976 appear on the next six pages, followed by a listing
of our discount prices, and an order form .
ANARCHY , STATE , AND UTOPIA , by
Robert Nozick. Basic Books , $12.95.
A powerfu l defense of individual
rights and the minimal state , this
prize-winning book is a philosophical
challenge to the most widely held
political and social positions of our
age-liberal , socialist , and conser–
vative . Winner of The 1975 National
Book Award in Religion and Phil–
osophy.
ART CHRONICLES 1954-1966, by
Frank O'Hara . Ventu re, $15 .00 [80
illustrations]
The essential years in the lives of
Pollock , Kline , Smith , Motherwell ,
Nak i an , Cavallon , Frankenthaler ,
Rivers , Spaventa , Guston and Katz
This exciting vo lume of Frank
O'Hara's art writings offers a rare
insight into the art scene of the fifties
and sixties , that un usual time when
most of the prominent artis ts worked
together to bring a new dimension to
American art.
THE LIFE OF EMILY DICKINSON , by
Richa rd B. Sewall. Vol. I : Forebears
and Family ; " War Between the
Houses" Vol. II : Emily Dickinson.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux , $30.00
In this acclaimed biograp h y,
Richard B. Sewall , who had first ex–
clusive access to t he voluminous
Todd-Bingham archive at Yale, reex–
amines Emily Dickinson's relation–
ships and reassesses the reasons for
her withdrawn life.
ROSCHER AND KNIES: The Log ical
Problems of Historical Economics ,
by Max Weber, translated with an
Introduction by Guy Oakes . Free
Press , $10.95
This is Max Weber's most ambi–
tious , original , and important work
on the problems of social-science
procedure. It introduces all the basic
themes which reappear in his later
theoretical essays dealing with the
logical properties of the " socio-cul–
tural " sciences.
THE MESSAGE IN THE BOTTlE , by
Walker Percy. Farrar, Straus and
Giroux , $8 .95
The theme of Walker Percy's first
book of non-f ict io n is summed up in
his subtitle, "How Queer Man Is ,
How Queer Language Is, and What
One Has To Do With The Other." Mr.
Percy , in addition to being a distin–
guished novelist, is a scientist (M . D.,
Columbia) who has been writing for
many years about language and
meaning and existence .
A SORROW BEYOND DREAMS : A
life Story , by Peter Handke, t rans–
lated by Ralph Manheim. Farrar,
Straus and Giroux, $5.95
Peter Handke's extraordinary con–
frontation with his mother's suicide,
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams isa remark–
able portrait , at once bleak and rich ,
of a woman and a world that could
not sustain her.
